Macbeth - Page 69

Shall have more vices than it had before,

More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever,

By him that shall succeed.

MACDUFF What should he be?

MALCOLM

It is myself I mean, in whom I know50

All the particulars of vice so grafted51

That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth52

Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state

Esteem him as a lamb, being compared

With my confineless harms.55

MACDUFF Not in the legions

Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned

In evils to top Macbeth.

MALCOLM I grant him bloody,

Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,58

Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin59

That has a name. But there's no bottom, none,60

In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters,

Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up

The cistern of my lust; and my desire

All continent impediments would o'erbear64

That did oppose my will. Better Macbeth

Than such an one to reign.

MACDUFF Boundless intemperance

In nature is a tyranny. It hath been67

Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne

And fall of many kings. But fear not yet

To take upon you what is yours. You may70

Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty71

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